Question

What was the cranial capacity of Java man?
A. 140 cc
B. 650 cc
C. 900 cc
D. 1450 cc

Answer 1

Java man is an early human fossil discovered in the land of Java. Also called the Homo erectus erectus , formerly called Anthropopithecus erectus. It was the oldest hominid fossil ever found, and it remained the type of specimen for Homo erectus.

Complete answer: Java man was about 5 feet 8 inches (173cm) tall and his thigh bones showed that he walked erect like a modern human being, as they were engaged in a lot of running. Their skull was characterized by thick bones and a retreating forehead with no chin, and protruding brow ridges and a massive jaw. They had 900 cc, their cranial capacity was smaller than that of later H. erectus specimens. They had human teeth with large canines present. Java man like other Homo erectus was probably a rare species. There is evidence that Java man used shell tools to cut meat. The cranial capacity is approximately 800-900 cc and identified as archaic Homo erectus, that lived in Sangiran at 1.5 million to 900,000 years ago.
Hence, the correct answer is option C.

Note: In order to distinguish between Java man and Homo erectus populations, some scientists began to regard it as a subspecies Homo erectus erectus in the 1970s. Other fossils found in the first half of the twentieth century in java at Sangiran and Mojokerto, were also considered part of the species Homo erectus. The fossils of java man have been housed at the Naturalis in the Netherlands since 1900.